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April 6, 1972 Local Students Awarded Fellowships To Study Abroad A Pomona College senior and an alumnus have been awarded Thomas J. Watson Traveling Fellowships for a year of independent post-graduate travel and study abroad. Selected to receive the fourth annual awards, which this year went to 70 students from 35 colleges and universities across the nation, are J. Lansing Duncan, 22, and Robert C. McMahon, 22.

Both recipients will receive awards of $8,000 each. This year's Watson Fellowship recipients representing the humanities, sciences, government, an, law, medicine and other academic disciplines, were chosen from among 140 graduating seniors nominated by the participating colleges, according to Dr. Robert 0. Schulze, executive director, The a a Foundation, Providence, R. I.

Since the inception of the program in 1968, Pomona College has had a total of 11 Watson Fellows. The fellowships are presented annually by the Foundation, a charitable trust established by the late Mrs. Thomas J. Watson in memory of her husband, founder of International Business Machines Corporation. Dr.

Stephen Erickson. associate professor of philosophy, Pomona College, headed the committee which selected the nominees. The students were selected primarily on the basis of their potential for leadership and excellence in their chosen fields, although academic records and extracurricular activities also were taken into account. As part of his application for a fellowship, each recipient suggested his own post-graduate program of travel and study to add to his knowledge in previous fields or to explore new areas of interest. The only requirement was that the program enable him to significantly Increase his own career potential.

Duncan, who received his B.A. degree in art practice last February, is interested in art photography, graphics, and architecture. He will leave next fall for Great Britain with Patricia Hedrick, Santa Barbara, a Pitzer College senior an major, whom he will wed this spring. The couple will travel first to Great Britain and then the Mediterranean countries of Italy, Greece, Spain and Crete, to make a phogo- gxaphic study of how people are related to their environs. His plans grew out of a photographic essay of England, which he made during the fall of 1970, when he was a participant in Pomona College's Semester Abroad program.

A serious photographer primarily interested in ponraiture and landscape, Duncan will make a walking tour of Wales, moving at his own pace, to photograph the working classes in their environmental settings, particularly the coal mining and industrial cities; the Outer Hebrides in Scotland; England's Lake District and the industrial midlands. From here, the couple will visit the Mediterranean countries on the European continent. Dr. David Merrill, chairman of the Pomona College art depanment who was one of Duncan's college advisers, considers him "exceptionally gifted," and a student who has a remarkable sensibility, together with a more than ordinary capacity to accept and absorb criticism. "Starting with landscape and architectural photography," Dr.

Merrill says of Duncan, "he has grown the point where he has been able to take portraits of deft, yet telling directness. Typically, these show the individual in his context in a way that goes beyond supportive description to acknowledge the mutuality of the process by which we and our world shape each other. This seems to me a natural outgrowth of Lansing's (Duncan's) initial preoccupation with his that preoccupation strikes me in turn as a proper reflection of his personality." Dr. William R. Lowery, assistant professor of English, Pomona College, who has known him both as a student and as a photographer, speaks of Duncan as a competent landscape photographer who "began to move beyond the merely pictorial, the simply dramatic, during his semester in England, where disposed of his Romantic preconceptions of how England should look in pictures" and has begun "to show sincere concern for the place people have in sites, to find joy in the coupling of compositional values with human revelation." McMahon, who resides in Pomona with his wife, the former Jamie Dorn of Los Gatos, who was a student at Pomona College for two years, will receive his B.A.

degree in history in June. Be- ginning next fall, he plans to study contemporar monastic culture, bod Benedictine and Anglican, in England, Ireland France and Spain, exploring "potential relationships between monasticism and communal or intentional communities, to get "a feeling" for the way Conventional, Cistercian, Trappist, and other monastic orders direct their life toward the same goal, the religious life serving God. "I want to have some key note to the kind of feeling that's in the monastic life," McMahon explained. "For instance, how does manual prayer, and the communal aspects of monasticism mold a person?" His Catholic background and his college i concentration, Medieval studies, influenced him to pursue the study of contemporary monastic culture. As part of his study plan, McMahon will visit Downside Abbey in Somerset, England; The Abbey of Melli- font, County Louth, Armagh, Ireland; Solesmes Abbey, Solesmes, Sarthe, France, and The Taize Community, Burgundy, France, a Protestant monastery.

A Man Tired Of All Those Polish Jokes You've heard the one about the world's shortest book, of course --Polish War Heroes. And about the official bird of Poland --the fly? Then there's the one about the Polish janitor who. Wait a minute. Edward J. Piszek has heard them all --and he isn't laughing.

More, he's spending 5500,000 to get across the message that there's nothing funny about Poles. Piszek peazeck) is a millionaire businessman who has put his money, time and energy behind "project: POLE." His aim is to show Americans that Poles have done something more in the past 1,000 years than just sitting around on the receiving end of a million bad jokes. Since last October, Piszek has run newspaper, radio and television ads in major cities across the country to inform the public about scores of Polish scientists, writers, heroes and inventors. He also wants to set the word out to the "more than ten million Polish- Americana" to stand up tall and destroy the image that ends in bad jokes. "There's one trait common to all Poles --they're modest to a fault," Piszek said in an interview.

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A PH. fM MM) OOMV MMlAYt mem mem Piszek says, gives birth to phrases such as "ya dumb Pollack." "If a people has not been talking to the rest of their societv, the society concludes that they have nothing to talk Piszek said. BUSY MAKING MONEY i 55, says he himself was "modest to a fault'' most of his life. He was too busy making money to think too much about being a Pole. His parents left a small farm in Tarnow, Poland and came to Philadelphia where they opened a corner grocery store.

He worked his way through college a borrowed $450 to start Mrs. Paul's Kitchens, Inc. Today the company is one of America's largest producers of frozen packaged foods, with annual sales of close to S60 million. Piszek owns it all right down to the last fishstick. He has picked up some of the jargon and techniques used in mass advertising and applied it to Project: POLE.

"We want to show Poles by a dramatic, spectacular example what it will do for them if they speak up and speak out 'in good taste, about themselves," he said. His Madison Avenue approach has drawn some criticism. ''One lady wrote, how dare you try to sell culture the way you sell underarm a Piszek said with a laugh. "No one has ever tried to sell culture like this before so, naturally, you have some people who have an aversion to using mass communications for anything like this." But he said most of the --especially from Poles --has been favorable. ''This thing has taken off like a comet," Pi- szek said.

"It's gone far beyond what we expected, maybe a hundred times more. Some of it's from non-Poles who see this as a reasonable approach." Piszek said he always had "this compulsion a teacher complex. I must send you out with more information than you had when you came in." PROUD OF HERITAGE It wasn't until he visited Poland in 1963, though, that he decided to direct that compulsion toward teaching fellow Poles to be proud of their heritage. It began as a humanitarian interest in the problems of his native land. Piszek donated more than SI million in equipment to help stamp out tuberculosis, a disease that has plagued Poland for years.

It ended with Piszek making frequent i back to Poland, studying its culture, history and people. He was surprised at what he learned. "For instance, I didn't know that Copernicus was a Pole," he said, "and when I learned, well. Well, Copernicus ended up as part of the advertising campaign. Piszek said it's the same with most Polish- Americans.

"We came over in the millions, but from the bottom cut of Polish society," i said. "They had their honesty, integrity and religion, but they were the least educated. knew only a portion of their culture and history so they really couldn't teach it." Piszek wants to teach it. With Father Walter J. Ziemba, of the Orchard Lake, Center for Polish Studies and Culture, he offers books and records about Poland with each ad.

"We want to get the information about Poles to Poles so the yean come into greater fruition, so they can be better Americans," Piszek said. He has history on his side. Poland produced Tadeusz Kosciusko and Kzaimierz Pulaski, heroes of the American Revolution; writers Jozef Korzeniowski Conrad) and Nobel Prize winner Hrnryk Sienkle- wicz, author of "Quo Vadis?" Then there are Fryderyk Chopin and Jan Paderewski, and scientists Mikolaj Kopernick (Copernicus) and Maria Sklodowska a a Curie). And how about politicians, for instance Edmund Marciszewski, better known as Sen. Edmund Muskie? "It is an image problem," Piszek said.

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